American Journal of Ophthalmology: impact and ranking
American Journal of Ophthalmology has a 2-year mean citedness of 3.94 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,694 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 290. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.94 #2,694 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 290 #568 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #307 of 18,122
- Works
- 50k 22.7 citations per work
What is the impact factor of American Journal of Ophthalmology?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for American Journal of Ophthalmology: 3.94, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks American Journal of Ophthalmology #2,694 of 18,122 journals, in the top 15%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of American Journal of Ophthalmology?
OpenAlex gives American Journal of Ophthalmology an h-index of 290: 290 of its papers have each been cited at least 290 times. That ranks #568 of 18,122 journals.
How much does American Journal of Ophthalmology publish?
OpenAlex records 50,170 works in American Journal of Ophthalmology from 1880 to 2026, cited 1,137,262 times in all, 22.7 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #307 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About American Journal of Ophthalmology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-9394
- In OpenAlex
- 1880 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list American Journal of Ophthalmology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,300.
- OpenAlex record
- S50016660
Journals ranked near American Journal of Ophthalmology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below American Journal of Ophthalmology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,650 | Infection and Immunity | 3.98 | 331 |
| 2,676 | Chemistry - A European Journal | 3.96 | 302 |
| 2,680 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 3.95 | 398 |
| 2,697 | Free Radical Biology and Medicine | 3.94 | 378 |
| 2,708 | Journal of The Electrochemical Society | 3.93 | 423 |
| 2,728 | Ophthalmology | 3.91 | 370 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.